Pócs Katalin

She began her musical studies in elementary school, and even then she was improvising. “Even when I was a little girl, I composed pieces, mostly piano pieces and smaller songs, either by experiment with the piano or on my own. I wrote the lyrics for the songs myself,” the composer recently told EPER Radio. Later she was admitted to the composition department of the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music, where her teacher was István Fekete Győr. After graduation, she continued his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in composition as a student of Emil Petrovics. She graduated in 1988.

In 1986 she won first prize in the composer’s competition in memory of Franz Liszt. In 1992, she won fourth place in a competition in South Africa. She also won second prize in the 1993 composition competition “Music of the Future”. In 1987 she was awarded the Treasure Board of Trustees scholarship and between 1988 and 1991 the Kodály Zoltán scholarship. In 1998 he received the art scholarship of the XXII. district municipality. In 2012 she won an award for In Memoriam Zoltán Kodály 3. Hungarian Composition Competition.

Several of her works have been published in printed form both in Hungary and abroad. In addition, three of her pieces have been released on CD so far. In 1995 Hungaroton published Young Composer’s Group – Anthology IV (Young Composer’s Group; Anthology – IV), which also contains Katalin Pócs’s composition for cimbalom entitled Contemplation (performed by Ildikó Slim). In the same year, Hungarian Radio published the composer’s piece Hommage. In 2001, the album Harpa Hungarica was released privately.